#culture

The existence of insignificant people has very important consequences in the world. It can be shown to affect the price of bread and the rate of wages, to call forth many evil tempers from the selfish and many heroisms from the sympathetic, and, in other ways, to play no small part in the tragedy of life. ↗

— George Eliot

#people #life

There is no chronic disease to be found among fish and animal life in the sea that compares to those on land. It is also known that all land animals develop arteriosclerosis, yet sea animals have never been diagnosed as arteriosclerotic. ↗

— Dr. Maynard Murray

#sea-agriculture #sea-salt-nutrition #soil #life

Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition. ↗

— Andrzej Stasiuk

#western-culture #freedom

We live in a culture of violence. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#life-and-living #violence #life

In consumer life we become what we consume-disposable junk to be used and thrown away. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#consumption #essence-of-life #life

They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of misunderstanding, and the clatter of culturally ingrained beliefs. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#love #love

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness. ↗

— George Steiner

#noise #something #terribly #wrong

And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have to hear Mary Elizabeth talk about all the great things she exposed me to all the time. I don't understand that. I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#culture #philosophy #love

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#culture #dreams #history #imagination #dreams

When there is no freedom, there is no creativity. ↗

— Soud Qbeilat

#creativity #culture #freedom #journalism #art